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From: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
To: Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>
Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: I removed the [libreplanet-discuss] tag from this list
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:54:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pnjow0zw.321942@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zlg9uxi.fsf@fsf.org> (Ian Kelling's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:56:09 -0400")


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Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org> wrote:
> Partly because we've had someone sending messages to people with the tag, but they aren't actually list messages.

So if ‘someone’ adds the footer, you would remove it too?  I would like to ask him a favour of doing that then. :-)

Besides general reasons [0], why mangling mail is bad and unsubscribing footers are bad, the current footer has its specific problem: 47 underscores is not a standard footer (also called ‘signature’) separator (which is ‘-- ’).  So unless a user configured his MUA to recognize it, he has to remove it from any quoted message, that lacks a footer of its own, manually.  Which, of course, also contributes something to a level of newbie-user-friendliness.

[0] <wodww2sk.321942@gmail.com>

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25 16:56 I removed the [libreplanet-discuss] tag from this list Ian Kelling
2019-09-25 20:54 ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2019-09-26  0:09   ` email etiquette and self-care Brendan Kidwell

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